Crush

By: Frederic Dard

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Paperback | 6 October 2016

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A chilling 1950s suspense story of youthful naivety, dark obsession-and the slippery slope to murder

Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother, and her alcoholic father-in-law, 17-year-old Louise Lacroix is captivated by a glamorous American couple who moves to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of color, good humor, and easy living in drab 1950s Leopoldville-a place straight out of Louise's dreams.

Louise is thrilled when she successfully convinces the couple to hire her as their maid. But once she is under their roof, their model life starts to fall apart. Painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear, and a dark obsession begins to grow . . .

Industry Reviews

The cleverness of Dard's Georges Simenon-influenced novella lies in the way that it lulls you into thinking this is just another tale of a teenager's shattered dreams... it is much darker than that Sunday Times The wonder is that Frederic Dard's singular take on crime noir is not better known in this country. Served by an excellent translator, Dard has much to offer Daily Mail The French master of noir Observer Spellbinding... A sharp, short, well-told tale Wall Street Journal On top of that, it is a thrilling character study of a teenage girl driven to despair by their family and the prospectless city she is stuck in International Crime Fiction A snappy and sassy little drama - not just for the crime shelves, as this has a look at strong characters living through base emotions. Highly recommended Bookbag No question: for me, he was the greatest Philippe Geluck The literary descendant of Simenon and Celine Le Figaro His language is cutting, his point-of-view original and his verdict uncompromising... One of the few twentieth-century authors to win both critical acclaim and great popularity Solidarite Militaire France's most popular post-war author L'Express

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